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ReRe2
12 months agoNew member | Level 2
How to return all files to offline?
I was having sync troubles so to save hard drive space I went to App/Preferences/Manage and selected all to be online. According to the app “…saves hard drive space. Files will still appear on your c...
- 12 months ago
Well, after 10 days of trying, I took a day off, ate Christmas dinner, and found Dropbox to be magically working fine with sync icons on my Mojave computer! Whew.
Like my Dad used to say, "If you back into a buzzsaw, you'll never know what tooth took."
i.e. Can't really call specify the solution.
ReRe2
12 months agoNew member | Level 2
Mac Mojave
"Everything is Up to Date"
App v214.3.5170
I have another computer with Dropbox working fine - it behaves as expected: I choose Manage Hard Drive and check the files and they then have a little cloud by them.
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Ps I notice there are three entries for Dropbox in my System Preferences/ notifications settings. It gives no indication of versions, and all three are the same.
I can't upload a picture of that here for some reason, here's a link to the picture if that works: [link removed so as to protect the daily limit for data sharing]
Hannah
Dropbox Community Moderator
12 months agoHey @ReReDouble, since you're on the beta version of the Dropbox app, I would suggest switching to the stable one, to see if that helps.
To do so, turn off the "early releases" option here and then reinstall the Dropbox app.
Keep me posted with the results.
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